Toilet-paper fixture



(No Model.)

S. WHEELER. TOILET PAPER FIXTURE. No. 445,436. Patented Jan. 27,1891.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.'

SETI-I TWHEIEILER, OF ALBANY, NEV YORK.

TOILETMPAPER FIXTURE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 445,436, dated January 27, 1891.

Application filed June 26, 1890. Serial No. 356,764. (No model.) s

To @ZZ whom zit may concern.:

Bc itknown that I, SETE VHEELER, of the city and county of Albany and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toilet-Paper Fixtures, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part thereof.

This invention consists in an improved device for retaining together and holding in a suspended position sheets of toilet-paper put up in bundle form.

In the drawings, Figure l is a front view of va bundle of toilet-paper sheets to which my invention is applied. Fig. 2 isa central crossseetion taken through the line c oc of Fig. l. Figs. 3, 4, and 5 are detail views of my improved device. g

a is the bundle of sheets.

b is the back of the bundle, made usually of apiece of heavy pasteboard or card-board. Through the bundle, near one of its edges, so as to connect all the sheets together, is driven a rivet o. This rivet mayhavea sharp point, `as shown in Fig. 3, or it may bedull. I prefer, however, to make the point as shown in the drawings. This rivet, having been driven through the paper, will assume the position shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 2. Before driving it through the paper a hanger-plate CZ is passed onto the rivet at the pointe in the lower portion thereof. The head of the rivet is, when it has been driven through the bundle of sheets, brought snugly up against the hangerplate, and the hanger-plate in turn brought A washer g is then placed upon the end of the rivet. Its end or point is then upset or riveted over on The result of this construction is that it is not only more economical as to cost, but the device is more easily attached to the bundle, there being no necessity of .first making slits or openings through the sheets.

7L is a slot ont in the upper portion ofthe hanger-plate d, having its lower portion eireled out, so as to permit the upper portion, which is smaller than the head of the nail, to lit close to the body of the nail, thus preventing the pulling of the bundle from off the nail when a sheet is detached. The hanger-plate d can be turned on the pivot to extend downward therefrom, so as to cause it to assume a position the reverse of that shown in Figs. 1 and 2. (See dotted lines on back Z9, Fig. 2. The object of this downwardly-projecting hanger-plate is to give it when required the vfunction of a hoolgas it can be held in .a hung position on a bar or other equivalent element.

Instead of driving the rivet through the rear of the bundle, it can be driven in at the front, in which latter case no washer is required, the point of the rivet being upset yagainst the hanger-plate CZ. This will still leave the hanger-plate free to be turned around, so as to assume the position of a hook, as before explained. The head f of the rivet in this instance serves the purpose of a Washer at the front of the bundle.

I claiml. A bundle of toilet-paper having a rivet through its sheets near one of its edges, in combination with a hanger-plate which is capable of turning upon said rivet, so as to form a hook as well as a hanger-plate, substantially as described.

2. A bundle of toi1et-paper, in combination with a hanger consisting of a flat metal plate provided with an elongated opening and pivotally secured to the bundle so as to be reversible, substantially as described.

SETI'I lVHEELER.

` fitncssesz E. WHEELER, SETE. WHEELER, Jr. 

